Caecilius Statius Quotes

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.

Fear first made gods in the world.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Fear first created the gods.

It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

There's something called religion, and it was invented a long time ago by people who felt very out of control with their lives, who didn't know... why the sun always rose over the mountains.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

... force is the natural ally of superstition, and superstition knows it well.